v/a unclassical 0,1
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This is the only compilation work based on our collection. It was published in 2000 and was at that time a kind of manifesto.
Unclassical substance - This disc presents the unclassical aspect of our catalogue - that is, music of today, performed for the most part with traditional acoustic instruments (piano, violin, cello...). Musicians, composers, pieces... liberated of all dogma - far from coteries or the more practical application of theories... What we present here is a collection of the highspots in contemporary music - many unpublished pieces for piano, violin, voices or ensemble by Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Luigi Dallapiccola, Giacinto Scelsi, Hanns Eisler, Stefan Wolpe... even a rare piece by the American writer Paul Bowles; it ends the record in a way of homage...
Young composers - We took our first breaths with Feldman but here are some young people too: David Shea, who links up various connections (with commissioned works for Ictus and the Ensemble Musique Nouvelle, he was a student of Morton Feldman in New York before becoming John Zorn's protégé in the alternative downtown scene); Brett Dean, viola player at the Berliner, and an Australian member of Frame-Cut-Frame, was, with David Shea, among the first to succeed in his conclusive works based on sampling. Two other young composers with a vision: Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Renaud De Putter.
Documents and archives - For this compilation we also published an unreleased version of Musical Erratum by Marcel Duchamp, two pieces recorded in Italy by the Russolo brothers, a murmur recorded in the beginning of the 20's as a first step towards a noise, electronic or concrete music, a 1911 recording performed by Claude Debussy himself in another pre-première performance, an extract from a piece composed by Henri Pousseur for the foundation of Paris' contemporary art center Beaubourg in 1977: the premises of a profound investigation pursued by the founders of the electronic music of the 50's and 60's throughout the world.
Artwork by Dominique Goblet